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Yingzhen Qu0
Toerless Eckert0
Uma S. Chunduri0
Date of Patent
April 18, 2023
0Patent Application Number
171108130
Date Filed
December 3, 2020
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A method implemented by a network element (NE) in a network, comprising receiving, by the NE, preferred path route (PPR) information describing a PPR graph, the PPR graph representing a plurality of PPRs between an ingress NE and an egress NE in the network, and updating, by the NE, a forwarding database to include a forwarding entry for the egress NE in response to identifying the NE in the plurality of PPR-PDEs, the forwarding entry indicating a next hop by which to forward a data packet comprising the PPR-ID.
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